On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 7:18:04 AM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 1:02 AM <agrays...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > *> did Einstein, or anyone, ever prove what I will call the General >> Principle of Relativity, namely that the laws of physics are invariant for >> accelerating frames? If the answer is affirmative, is there a >> transformation equation for Maxwell's Equations which leaves them unchanged >> for arbitrary accelerating frames? * > > > Mathematicians prove things Physicists don't, they find theories that are > less wrong than previous ideas, but Maxwell's original equations already > did what you ask for, >
*I don't think so. ME's are invariant under the LT. AFAIK, this applies to inertial frames, not accelerating frames, which is what I was asking about. AG* > they enabled you to calculate the speed of light and they indicated the > speed was the same for any reference frame. In fact this was the reason > Einstein suspected Newtonian physics didn't tell the entire story and is > why he started working on Relativity in the first place. Maxwell needs > modification to be consistent with Quantum Mechanics but with Special or > General Relativity no change is required. > > John K Clark > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
